Features
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Urban Planet: Chalktrail
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Visual Notes for Architects and Designers – Second Edition
Author: Norman Crowe and Paul Laseau (John Wiley & Sons, 2012) As children, we all loved to draw. Be it for recreation or otherwise taking a pencil...
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Urban Planet: Seasteading – Floating Tech Cities
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Price Points: An Easter House
The perfect home for Easter: magnolias in the front yard, daffodils on the boulevard, arcs of eggs strung over the stairs, and probably a ham cooking in...
By Gordon Price -
The vague terrain of art in the generic city
The same day Beyond Vague Terrain: The City and the Serial Image closed at the Surrey Art Gallery, Artswest had an exhibition in the new Surrey Library...
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Urban Planet: Argentinian Book Patrol
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites...
By Hilary Best -
Neighbourhood Watch
A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C. There’s a new community market in Burnaby aimed at helping immigrant and refugee...
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Urban Planet Weird Wednesday: Hanshin Expressway
Weird Wednesdays on Urban Planet takes a look at obscure, absurd, and curious things about cities around the world. Ever heard of William...
By Mike Bulko -
CAPS 2012 Conference Rundown (Part 2): Touring Around
[Editor’s Note: This is final Feature looking at the 2012 CAPS Conference that occurred in Vancouver in February.] As mentioned in Part One of this...
By Cameron Barker -
Urban Planet: Roll-Up Crosswalk
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best -
Sim City: Waterfront
Spacington has gained a waterfront. Surprisingly, Spacington does in fact have a waterfront, and much like Toronto, we’ve endured little interaction...
By Dylan Collie -
Urban Planet: Train above the High Line
Urban Planet is a daily roundup of blogs from around the world dealing specifically with urban environments. We’ll be on the lookout for websites outside...
By Hilary Best